Voting

The Missing Obama Millions

March 16, 2018 7:57 pm

By SEAN McELWEE, JESSE H. RHODES, BRIAN F. SCHAFFNER and BERNARD L. FRAGA for NYTimes Much of the political commentary since the presidential election has focused on two groups of party switchers: those who voted for Barack Obama in 2012…

New York Voters Reject a Constitutional Convention

November 10, 2017 10:02 pm

By JESSE McKINLEY ALBANY — New York voters gave a resounding thumbs down to a constitutional convention on Tuesday, once again rejecting an opportunity to open the state’s founding document to a full-scale overhaul after opponents stoked fears that such…

Women Voters Cant Be Trusted (1972)

October 16, 1972 3:33 pm

Men in politics have made a lot of of assumptions about the way women vote: that we vote like our husbands if we’re married, or like our fathers if we’re not; that, given our choice of male candidates, we’ll choose…